Maybe people should look at Nunez's first season at Benfica. He struggled a bit at first and was played on the left until he bedded in. For me the plan is pretty clear. Diaz on the left, Nunez as a 9, Gakpo in behind and Mo on the right. There are two reasons why that isn't happening at the moment the first is obvious Diaz is injured. The second issue is that we don't have the athleticism and quality to play a double pivot behind Gakpo. Hopefully, that gets addressed in the summer with Bellingham +1.Until then we need someone on the left with pace until Diaz is fit.
For me the plan is pretty clear. Diaz on the left, Nunez as a 9, Gakpo in behind and Mo on the right.
That's not what you were saying when we bought Gakpo. You were saying that we bought him after seeing he could do a job centrally at the World Cup and the plan was always to play him through the middle with Nunez on the left.
No I said we were playing Nunez on the left because we need pace in that position. For me Diaz has that left attacker role nailed down. Gakpo simply doesn't have the pace to play as a wide attacker for us. I see him as a false 9 or a Lallana style 10/amNunez on the left is like Origi playing there. He gets that role because of his pace.
We essentially did that last night and Nunez was still on the wing. Even Jota is seen more of a striker than he is. It's plausible that we might shift to a 4-2-3-1 next season, but it's not ideal if Nunez is on the wing whenever Diaz is missing.But yeah, I don't like that we're playing him in a position that seems uncomfortable just for his pace. It's a waste of his talents to treat him like Dan James.
I think for me the sensible thing to do is to move Jota on and bring in a wide player with real pace who can play on either wing.
Maybe people should look at Nunez's first season at Benfica. He struggled a bit at first and was played on the left until he bedded in.
We’ll still finish in top four - and they won’t. You can quote me on this in May.
That makes a lot of sense. It's hard to judge the system at the moment when it can't function properly due to the lack of appropriate midfielders.
I seem to remember him being an absolute menace and being, statistically, very dangerous. Remind me, where was he playing when he was like this? I’m sure it can’t have been down the middle, that’d be far too obvious.
If he's being asked to head the ball too frequently - which isn't exactly his specialty - it could affect his ear and cause an infection. Especially if the ball hits him on the ear directly.
Klopp obviously doesn’t like him down the middle. May aswell get some money back in the summer and buy another left forward.
The Test is obviously right
He was awful. Run forward, dragged it back. Lost it. Repeat.
Yep been saying this for a while, it's the only obvious reason. Think while he scored and created through the middle, we lose the control and build up you get with a false 9.The argument was that with Diaz out we're using him wide for his pace, but then why not keep him there and swap Jota for Gakpo tonight.
